I&C Technician

UNC Finance and Operations; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

UNC Finance and Operations is seeking an engineer to manage distributed control systems, instrumentation installation, commissioning, maintenance, and repair for campus cooling plants.

The role involves operating the district cooling systems, troubleshooting equipment, and being prepared to work during emergencies and adverse weather as part of the emergency duty duties.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance, troubleshooting, repair and calibration of existing plant and chilled water bridge controls and instrumentation, large VFDs and UPS at chiller plants and campus buildings.
• Installation, calibration and commissioning of new and retrofit chiller plant and chilled water bridge instrumentation and final control elements.
• Configure and operate the District Cooling Systems including system starts after outages, problem diagnosis and SCADA reports.
• Emergency Duty position requiring work during adverse weather or other University emergencies.

Job description

A SIGN-ON BONUS OF $7,458 IS AVAILABLE FOR THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT OF THIS POSITION PAID IN 2 INSTALLMENTS WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF HIRE: $3,729 WITHIN 30 DAYS OF HIRE DATE & $3,729 12 MONTHS AFTER HIRE DATE.

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for an assigned area of distributed control system and instrumentation installation, commissioning, maintenance and repair. This position must commission and operate existing and new plants and bridges. The control systems and associated instruments operate large-scale chilled water plants, a sophisticated Thermal Energy Storage System and 'Free Cooling' Heat Exchanges, future plant/facility growth and on-going upgrading of existing controls and power electronics. The plants must operate continuously:

• Maintenance, troubleshooting, repair and calibration of existing plant and chilled water bridge controls and instrumentation, large variable frequency drives and uninterruptible power supplies at chiller plants and campus buildings.
• Installation, calibration and commissioning of new and retrofit chiller plant and chilled water bridge instrumentation and final control elements.
• Configure and operate the District Cooling Systems to include system starts after major outages, problem diagnosis and solutions, trend analysis, graphics, alarms and reports for the SCADA system.
• This is an Emergency Duty position which requires incumbent to work during periods of adverse weather or other University or Chilled Water Systems emergency